ROV operations expenditures to grow to $1.5 billion by 2017
by
Frank Tobe
24
March
2014
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- 75% of the ROV vehicles are used as work-class vehicles; the remainder are for inspection.
- The combined purchase and operations expenditures over those years will be $9.7 billion.
- Insight into those numbers provided by Unmanned Vehicle Systems Consulting said that global ROV sales in 2010 were $850 million of which 50% were for energy use; 25% for defense and security and 25% for scientific research.
- Further, roughly 20% of the vehicles were autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs); the rest were ROVs (remotely operated vehicles).
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tags:
AUV,
c-Business-Finance,
cx-Industrial-Automation,
cx-Military-Defense,
Mapping-Surveillance,
ROV